Marcel Duchamp painted Tu m’ long after he gave up painting. In 1918, however, he received a commission to paint something that would be put on display in a library.

Barnett Newman’s 1946 painting Pagan Void stares you down at the start of “L’Âge atomique: Les artistes à l’épreuve de l’histoire” (The Atomic Age: Artists Put to the Test of History), a visual tour ...

Duchamp is, in effect, the first conceptual artist, and the readymades are the first conceptual works of art. As he said in 1946, he "wanted to get away from the physical aspect of painting. I was ...

Kunsthaus Zürich is Switzerland’s largest transhistorical museum for fine arts, spanning over eight centuries of art history, from the Middle Ages to the present.

French painter and sculptor Marcel Duchamp is another great artist who had a pretty prominent funny bone. The quote "Humor is the only reason to live" is attributed to Duchamp, and he embodied it ...

This venue will also serve as the site for future Duchamp Prize exhibitions until 2029. Last year’s recipient, French-Haitian artist Gaëlle Choisne, joined the ranks of notable past winners ...

They probably inherited their passion for the arts from their maternal grandfather who was a painter and an engraver. The eldest brother and Marcel’s mentor was Gaston Duchamp, who eventually ...